Games in Parallels 3

[jazzdude9792]

I thought parallels 3 was supposed to be able to play games but when I went to play Halo 1 on XP which is not nearly as graphics intesive as Halo 2 for Vista it didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Morgenl]

You are doing nothing wrong. Halo 1 requires Directx 9.0. Parallels only supports Directx 8.1. I think your best bet here is Bootcamp.

 

[jazzdude9792]

ok, thanks for the help

 

[jd300]

what about the sims i wish i can get it to play?

 

[jazzdude9792]

It might have the same issue halo did. Check the box and see if it need Direct X 9. If it does, Sims won't work.

 

[Stacey M]

Hello,

if you are talking about The Sims 2, unfortunately it requires DirectX 9.0 too.
But it looks like you can start it on Mac OS.

Best regards,
Stacey

 

[bobbyt]

With any luck they will get more current Direct X support in the future, but we'll have to wait and see what happens...